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grass top en · NOUN
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(countable) The tip of a blade or stalk of grass.
There was nothing to shoot at; but a moment afterward I saw a pair of horns through the grass tops, in such a position that it was evident the owner was looking at me.
1910, Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1910, page 521:
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(uncountable) An expanse covered in grass.
She glides along, her skirt touching the grass top as she sways to the beat of unwritten songs.
2008, Chris Fabry, Dogwood, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 154:
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